First Rainbow, Now SIKE? No Qubits Needed to Crack Another NIST PQC Algo

…[E]ncryption algorithm that was supposed to stand up to attacks from the future’s most powerful computers was recently laid low by a much simpler machine…

…SIKE—which stands for Supersingular Isogeny Key Encapsulation—was one of NIST’s secondary finalists, but a recently discovered cyberattack managed to break SIKE relatively easily…

…[I]t only took an hour for the little machine to unwind SIKE’s supposedly tricksy encryption.

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Classical Compting, Cryptographic Algorithms, Encryption, hacking, Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC), U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

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